Maho MH800e Retrofit Project

That seems like a fair trade haha, currently watching videos on the 7i73 to modify the hal for all the buttons. also just designed a rough draft pendant

RotarySMP wrote:

You are making good progress. Once you have it all running, I will have to use your HAL and Ini to upgrade my machine to 2.9 

The updater script _should_ handle any necessary HAL changes. 
Not a lot changed between 2.8 and 2.9 (2.7 to 2.8 was the big shift) 

 

been having some trouble with getting my 7i73 keyboard matrix to interact with the machine. could be just a me issue, it is currently abouyt 32 degrees f and I cant feel my hands out here. tried searching for answers and gotr some but the buttons dont do anything in either halshow or halscope. I have attached my hal files that involve the matrix.

rewatching rotary-smp's video on his schaublin panel I think I see my issue. I had wired the diodes for sourcing current but he mentions that it is sinking current so I need to flip my inputs and outputs to fix that like he had to in his video. I did try to bypass one buttons diode with no luck but perhaps swapping all of the around will solve this

You can typically not bother with diodes if you don't need to press more than one button at a time.

I swapped around the inputs and outputs and that solved the issue. I was able to get all the buttons to function. I spent a while working on getting the gmoccapy jog buttons to move the axis but for some reason the only way I was able to get any of the axis to move outside of homing is to use the halshow to select the axis for jogging. Tried tying the ui pins to the pos and neg axis pins. Also almost done with the pendant with the mpg just need the rotary switches and wiring